Beaver Island Michigan

Thanks Pam. Any chance that this meeting might be live streamed on Beaver Island TV?

The TDS problem also includes, at least as of Sunday afternoon, the Sheriff's substation number on BI as well as the Sheriff's number in Charlevoix. I tried to report it to TDS but gave up after 25 minutes on death hold. It's a much larger problem than just BIRCH's phone.

Hi, is anyone selling a Honda Ruckus here on BI? Please PM me. Heard there was a listing on FB . Thanks.

TDS's internet service continues to comparable to the days of dial up. I tried to have a Zoom meeting ystdy & even with the video off there wasn't enough bandwidth to support a stable connection. According to TDS's speedtest I had 1.1mbps download & 0.1mbps upload. Today is even worse! Speed...

TDS's internet service continues to comparable to the days of dial up. I tried to have a Zoom meeting ystdy & even with the video off there wasn't enough bandwidth to support a stable connection. According to TDS's speedtest I had 1.1mbps download & 0.1mbps upload. Today is even worse! Speed...

TDS's internet service continues to comparable to the days of dial up. I tried to have a Zoom meeting ystdy & even with the video off there wasn't enough bandwidth to support a stable connection. According to TDS's speedtest I had 1.1mbps download & 0.1mbps upload. Today is even worse! Speed...

I went to speedtest.net & ran it. It showed results (40 ping, 4.67mbps download, 0.31mbps up) significantly faster than what I previously scored when I would call TDS to complain abt slow internet. TDS would have me run their diagnostic, www.speedtest.tds.net (30 ping, 1.9mbps download, 0.4mbps ...

Why wait on TDS? Since everyone on the island is already a member of Great Lakes Energy (a cooperative, customer owned/not for profit) I'm suprised that Truestream, a far superior fiber technology, hasn't been mentioned. Truestream will offer both voice & internet. Their BASE internet plan offer...

Rushed to make to the 1 hourr that the Beaver Island US Post holds court on Saturday to try to locate a package that tracking shows they have been holding since Aug 3. No it's not signature required. Made it into the lobby door to find that fortunately the window was still open! There was an elderly...

Unfortunately, I can personally attest to how intrusive, arbitrary, & petty neighbors & township zoning/subdivision "covenants" can be on Beaver Island. It's your land & you would think you could do, within reason, with it as you wished. Further, You would think that given this...

Peaine board/Mr. Kohls, I would appreciate a response concerning the Wagner boat launch & Lake G dock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0YIJQ1jgEI

Seriously? Health & safety concerns...Please what a joke. I'll bet majority of township board members havent even a current flu shot. Another example of C19-nonisland phobia. Well perhaps the townships, primarily Peaine, will use the taxpayer money not spent on fireworks to finally improve/insta...

There are two 20 inch, 63yr old oil & natural gas pipelines that run 4.5 miles on the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac , which carry 2.3 million gallons of oil & liquid Nat Gas a day. Line 5, as itâ??s known, is owned by Enbridge, which also owned a similar pipeline which was responsible for the July 2010 spill of 1.1 million gallons of heavy crude into the Kalamazoo river near Marshall MI; the largest inland US oil spill in US history. That spill cost over $1.1 billion & 5yrs later, is still being cleaned up. Between 1999 & 2010 Enbridge had over 800 oil spills which totaled 6.8MM gallons. Pipeline 5â??s location between Huron & Lake Michigan has been described as potentially the worst place possible for a oil spill in the Great Lakes by Hydrologist Dave Schwab, Phd with University of Michigan. The best case scenario if Enbridge was able to immediately shut down line 5 if a spill occurred, to only one of the two pipelines, is the release of over 1.5mm gallons of oil. If a spill occurs it would significantly impact the Beaver Archipelago.

Enbridge is again asking the stateâ??s environmental regulators to green-light a new plan to continue operating dangerous Line 5 in the Straits of Mackinac.
We only have until June 29 to stop a permit that would allow Enbridge to squeeze more life out of its cracked, dented and deformed pair of 64-year-old pipelines in the Straits. Join us today in submitting public comment through our petition demanding that the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) reject Enbridgeâ??s permit request for Line 5 in the Straits.
SUBMIT PUBLIC COMMENT
Enbridge is asking for a state permit to upgrade Line 5 without any public hearing that would examine the condition of these dangerous pipelines that carry 23 million gallons of oil a day across the bottom of the Mackinac Straits, where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron meet.

Line 5 has reached the end of its lifespan - this pipe has pumped enough oil
Please take action now to urge that the MDEQ reject Enbridgeâ??s request to continue the piecemeal patch up of the 64-year-old â??Line 5â?￾ pipelines. They threaten the drinking water source for more than 40 million people, the economic engine for the Great Lakes region, and a way of life for millions of North Americans.
Eight months ago more than 6,000 of us told the state to reject this nearly identical permit request from Enbridge, and so the state backed off, and Enbridge withdrew its permit application. At the time we said Enbridgeâ??s request to expand its anchoring support system along the Straits was part of a larger effort to pump more dirty oil through Line 5 and its entire Great Lakes system.
Since then it was revealed that Line 5 anchors in the Straits - missing for decades - have heightened the risk of pipeline metal fatigue and failure. Much more needs to be learned about Line 5, yet Enbridge wants the state to approve its permit application without a single public hearing or a comprehensive examination of the condition of these decaying pipelines.
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We canâ??t let this happen!
Thank you for taking action to protect the Great Lakes!
David Holtz
Coordinator, Oil & Water Don't Mix campaign

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Does anyone on BI offer horseback riding or lessons?

I just went to the TDS page that's linked & put in my address on East Side Dr. The TDS message was "The FCC has determined there is one or more additional providers offering broadband service in your area; therefore this program is not available at this address." Try it your self. It l...